Pat Amsden's Blog

Mimi Barbour is a friend of mine and fellow author, both from the local VIRA (Vancouver Island Romance Authors) and Author’s Bill Board. She’s also a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who’s sold over 500,000 copies of her books world-wide. These include her five romance series: The Vicarage Bench/ time travel at it’s best, Angels […]

 Please join me in welcoming Jennifer St. Giles to my blog today. I love her writing and can’t wait to read her latest release, Kaylee’s Justice.   Let me start by giving a huge thank you to Pat for reaching out and sharing her blog with me today. I am grateful. And to all of the […]

Love, romance and happily ever after. Isn’t that what we all want? The question is how far will someone go to get it? What happens when someone takes advantage? One of Maxine’s best friends, Tanya, has decided to open a dating service, Soul Mates, and Maxine wants nothing but the best for her. But when […]

Marsha West is a friend of mine from the Romantic Suspense Sisters of Suspense blog and a fellow member of RWA and the Kiss of Death. She’s also a former elementary school principal which I find fascinating. Part of this is because all I wanted to do in school was escape. When people said, ‘you […]

  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Whether  you stay home and celebrate with family or find yourself travelling I hope you’ll find a few minutes to relax and get lost in a book.  As my gift to you I’m making A Christmas Wedding to Die For and Lost In Vegas #free through Amazon. A […]

I recently blogged over at the Romantic Sisters Of Suspense about the terrorist attacks and Syrian refugees. Almost all responses sent prayers to everyone suffering with many saying they didn’t know what else to do. The pain was too big, the problems too large for any of us to handle on our own. I know […]

  I weep and the world weeps with me over the devastating terrorist attacks in Paris. President Obama said, “this was an attack not just on Paris, not just on the people of France, but…on all of humanity and the universal values that we share.” And then the people of Beirut started to say, “what […]

By Phoenix, via Shereen Vedam Shereen Vedam is a good friend and fellow member of the local Vancouver Island Romance Writers. It’s my great pleasure to host her cat, Phoenix, from A DEVLISH SLUMBER, a book I highly recommend.  On a cool day in May, 1814, at the back of an alley next to an […]

As a writer myself I always enjoy talking to and getting to know fellow writers. This is particularly true when they write cozy mysteries as I do. Today I’m pleased to introduce Cindy Blackburn. She is the writer of the popular Cue Ball Mysteries series and now, the Cassie Baxter series. When did you know […]

 Love, romance and happily ever after. Isn’t that what we all want? The question is how far  will someone go to get it? And what happens when someone decides to take advantage? One of Maxine’s best friends, Tanya, has decided to open a dating service, Soul Mates, and Maxine wants nothing but the best for […]